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Recipe Book Recipe Reviews / Baby & toddler book
« on: May 03, 2013, 03:00:59 am »
Thinking about getting this, but its a year or so too late for me as we're all onto "adult food" now (albeit unfussy & fairly same-y). The more time or effort I put into food, the less likely they are to eat it!
 Does anyone have it? Is it worth getting? Would love a contents list ideally
Thnx
Deb

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Questions? Technical Issues? The Survival Guide / Gas oven issues
« on: December 18, 2012, 01:19:22 am »
We're on holiday and thermie came too! Made bread last night which remained doughy even when cooked on a higher than specified setting on this propane has cooker, an now bagels this am look a touch anaemic even after more than 30 mins... It's dds 2nd bday next week and wanted to make her a cake, as well as continuing to homebake bread - any ideas?
Tia
Deb

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Chit Chat / bulk storage container for bread making habit!
« on: December 10, 2011, 10:02:12 pm »
need to find some food grade storage containers for my bread flour & chicken food. to store a 10 or 20kg bag of bread flour, prob in the garage  (stays cool and dry). can someone please recommend where to look? I am in Melbourne
TIA

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Suggestions and Complaints / banned from forum?!
« on: November 05, 2011, 08:46:54 pm »
my laptop tells me I am banned from this forum?! although it is fine on my ipad, and haven't done anything to warrant a ban! can't log in or re- register on the laptop. it is fine on the ipad though
any ideas? maybe a problem with cookies or something? it is my homepage and was previously fine. the only thing I can think of is maybe my son did somethig when using my computer?
TIA
deb

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Recipe Requests / No carb soup recipes
« on: October 05, 2011, 10:25:16 am »
Diet time! Trying to shift the baby weight as bub is now 9 months old. Very hard given the amount of yummy food I have been making in the TMX.
Really trying to limit carbs to once a day, and would love some ideas for soups. Mostly vegetarian. And carbs/ food to avoid include pumpkin, carrot, potato, lentil, chickpeas etc, and meant to only have a little tomato, corn, peas.
So far have cauliflower & almond, broccoli & almond, raw avocado soup, zucchini soups and asparagus soup. Which should keep me going for a while, but would love any more ideas, as currently not very inspired by the diet!!
Thanks!
Deb

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Bread / scrolls - when to cut
« on: September 12, 2011, 01:22:34 am »
my kids love pizza scrolls - tomato paste, cheese and often olives. have just been using the basic bread recioe and flattening it out after the first rise. i bake the whole "swiss roll" log and then cut, once it has cooled a bit from the oven.also travels well to picnics like this in foil. but from reading the forum, it seems everyone cuts eirs before baking. think this woukd mean more cheese oozing out, kore baking trays and space, and more cleaning up!
any thoughts? i guess my loafs might rise a bit less and be heavier. any reason to try cutting before baking?
cheers
deb

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Babies and Kids / Annabel Karmel's Zucchini and pea "soup"
« on: June 27, 2011, 09:11:48 am »
Modified from the Anabel Karmel book.

Makes 2 adult portions and 4 baby portions.

 Ingredients:
1˝ small onions, peeled and finely chopped
45g or ˝ oz butter
150g or 2oz courgette, trimmed and thinly sliced
2 large potatoes (about 450g or 15 oz), peeled and chopped
120ml or 4 fl oz chicken or vegetable stock (if cooking for a LO under one year, there's a recipie for salt-less stock that I'll type at the end of this one)
75g or 1oz frozen peas
Sauté the onion in the butter until softened. Add the courgette, potato and stock. Bring to the boil, then cover and simmer for 12 minutes. Add the frozen peas, bring to the boil again, then reduce the heat and continue to cook for 4-5 minutes. Puree in a blender.
 
Makes 2 adult portions and 4 baby portions
Ingredients:
1˝ small onions, peeled and quartered
45g or ˝ oz butter
150g or 2oz courgette, trimmed and roughly sliced
2 large potatoes (about 450g or 15 oz), peeled and chopped
120ml or 4 fl oz chicken or vegetable stock (I have made a batch of saltless veg stock and frozen in ice cube sized portions, used 1 cube and 120 ml water)
75g or 1oz frozen peas



Preparation:
Chop onion on speed 7 for 5 secs, scrape down sides
Add butter and sautee for 3 mins on 100, speed 1
Add zucchini and chop for a few seconds on speed 5. Add potato, stock and cook for 12 mins on 100, reverse, speed 1, with MC in place
Add peas and cook for further 3.5 mins 100 speed 1, also with MC in place.
Puree well.


Tips/Hints: Made this today for dd, and also had a bowl myself for lunch with a TMX bagel. Great flavour but rather too potatoe-y for my liking - a bit like flavoured mash, so next time I would consider reducing the potato content. On the plus side, makes it a nice thicker texture for dd, as I find soups harder to feed to her if they are too runny. Not sure how it will freeze, also because of the potato content. But it says it should be OK. Hoping the onion content doesn't give her wind  :o


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Cakes / Scrummy lemon melt cookies
« on: May 09, 2011, 02:18:23 pm »
Just made these, my goodness, heaven in a biscuit! Adapted from Evelyn Rose's Orange Crisps recipe. My first recipe posting ...

150g SR flour
50g +20 g sugar
rind 1 lemon (peeled)
125g butter cut into 2cm chunks

Put sugar into TMX, blitz to make caster sugar. Remove 20g sugar, then add peeled lemon rind and blitz again. add flour. Add butter chunks and mix using the  :: setting until a dough is formed that can be formed into a ball.
Pinch off pieces the size of a small walnut, and roll into little balls. Place 5cm apart on an ungreased baking tray. Take a large fork, dip into cold water and then press down gently into the balls to make biscuits approx 1cm thick.
Bake for 15 mins at 170C until pale gold. Remove from oven and immediately sprinkle with caster sugar.

Put on the kettle, make a cuppa and enjoy  :)

The original recipe uses orange rind, might have to try that too some time but have so many lemons to use at the moment. Can hardly call them healthy but have mothers group at my place tomorrow and don't seem as bad when they are to be shared amongst a crowd  :D


members' comments

CP - Very nice, light and crunchy with a very slight lemon flavour. Only made 14 biccies, but oh well...will have to show some restraint. Oh and good for those days when you run out eggs.

Meagan - These were delish and got lovely comments from Playgroup. I did alter the recipe process a little. If you want a finer zest mill the sugar and flour together once you have removed the 20g sugar. Also I blended all the ingredients together on spd 5 for a few secs before kneading. Thanks for the recipe debetha.

cookie - I've made these twice now (once in a hurry for unexpected visitors) and love them.

dingdonny - These have become a family favourite, I made lemon first couple of batches and now I do orange and the general opinion is that orange are slightly more yum. Thanks for this fantastic easy recipe. My wife love me cooking all of these great things.

Coops - These were popular at my house also and am about to make another batch right now. I don't know why these don't get more of a raving, they really are lovely.

Katya - I only used half the dough and froze the rest.   They were wonderful... very moorish.

dede - They must be ok because there aren't many left. Thanks for the recipe. Will definitely be making again.

johnro - Thank you Deb for this scrumpy cookie - will be on the make again list in this house!!!!
I used lemon from our tree, removed the ski in with veg peeler but found that the skin was quite dry so added juice of 1/2 lemon so that the dough could combine - will continue to do this when our lemons are used!

Lynnie - Tried these yesterday, very yummy.

Vivaroo - So quick, easy & yummy, glad to finally have tried it out.  I did lemon and then orange and both are good, might mix it up next time, a little ginger and macadamia might be good to add as well.

Uni - super easy and super yummy.  Next time i will try some lemon curd yum. Thanks.

CC - Oh boy are they good. Mine only took ten minutes to cook. Made 24 cookies. I used an orange rind that I took off with my microplane.

JD - So quick and they are delicious little morsels.  I made 30 smaller biscuits but still had to cook them 15 minutes at 170oC.

Delightful Den - I just made these as a Valentines Day treat for my lovely DW.  They smell and look great. I can't wait for them to cool enough to eat one.

cookie - I have just taken these out of the oven. They are ever so easy.

obbie - I did this but changed it around and added passionfruit.

Kimmyh - they are easy and yummy. Had to make them a second time to get them perfect. Thank you for a yummy scrummy bickie.

ES -  I doubled the recipe and used the zest of one orange. My butter was straight from the fridge, so I mixed on speed 5 for 10 seconds first.  It made 3.5 dozen. DH says that they are nice and butter and gives them the thumbs up.















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Chit Chat / Men! TMX failure
« on: December 08, 2010, 09:16:26 am »
Feeling a bit weary today, and heading to work so asked dh to make macaroni cheese for the kids for dinner as he had a late start. He can do this on the stove np problem. Showed him e recipe for béchamel sauce. Had to also show hi. The flour even though the Tupperware had plain flour written on it, and that in fact there were 5l milk in the fridge and not none! We nearly had béchamel sauce made with vanilla protein powder.
He did manage to boil the pasta, but he assembled the dish having stirred the sauce for 10 minutes on no heat, and didn't click that the cold runnynslop wasn't quite right... Yes he had forgotten to put in the time!
Guess he needs to use the tmx a bit more and I should stop hogging it!
Thought someing was up when I put it in the oven...!
I should add he has cooked porridge etc in it before & been to a demo. Guess he grated some cheese at least!
Defrosting mushroom sauce for dinner now
Why is it often easier just to do it yourself?!
Deb

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Recipe Requests / UK no bake creme brulee
« on: November 11, 2010, 12:07:49 pm »
I would love to give this a try - love this desert but want something that doesn't require a bain marie to bake
Could anyone please give me the famous UK creme brulee recipe - can find several mentions of it on the forum but nothing more!
TIA
deb

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I have made a couple of batches of vege stock concentrate, but each time I baulk at the amount of salt I have to add, and give up at around 50g  :o (having said that i have noticed my scales to be a bit erratic!). I know salt helps it last but the stock is pretty salty even with the reduced amount. I binned the small amount I had left from my first batch after a month, and this time I have frozen some of the stock I have made.

My question is, how much salt does everyone actually use? I think part of the problem is that my salt is in one of those saxo plastic containers so it takes ages to add - if I got a big back from the supermarket, it might be easier!
TIA
Deb

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Jams and Chutneys / Tomato sauce/ paste with whole tomatoes?
« on: November 03, 2010, 01:13:03 am »
Want to try making a tomato sauce for cooking, have some "cooking" tomatoes, but feel that to discard the skins and seeds means discarding most of the tomato & goodness, and a waste!
I can see some people have made sauces using whole tomatoes.
So I guess my options are to use them whole & blitz well, use whole and strain, or peel but keep the seeds in. Leaning towards the last option
Anyone got any advice/ experience?
TIA
Deb

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Recipe Book Recipe Reviews / Vegetarian recipe book
« on: October 31, 2010, 12:11:58 pm »
Just browsing the TMX Aus website. Can anyone give me a review of the vegetarian book - is it worth getting?
TIA
deb

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Recipe Requests / Freezer meals
« on: October 31, 2010, 12:10:59 pm »
Not really a single recipe request, but anyone got any good recipes to freeze? Trying to stock the freezer before the new baby arrives.
Thanks!
deb

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Tips and Tricks / Butter flop - ideas for cream!
« on: October 18, 2010, 01:35:21 pm »
Tried making cream tonight with 600g double cream. Had a bit of buttermilk after 3 mins on speed 4 with the butterfly but nothing from there - just looks like whipped cream now!
One carton was within a few days of its useby, the other had 3 weeks to go. both out of the fridge.
Any ideas about what I can do from here? was the double cream the problem? And what should I do with the 600ml whipped cream - maybe icecream?
TIA
deb

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